Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®

there is “potential liability for any negative consequences” linked to a weather-modifying intervention.

would burn all of our known fossil fuel reserves, since that would mean warming beyond 6°C (11°F) and an irreversibly ruined climate that would have trouble sustaining 1 billion people. It would also mean that (1) the Earth ends up with very large areas that are uninhabitable or unfarmable and (2) the ocean would suffer a mass extinction, with larg

In short, avoiding the worst climate

The third category focuses on research-based policies aimed at lowering the cost and improving the performance of low-carbon sources.

Globally, the GHG emissions from producing beef is on average more than a hundred times greater than those of soy products per unit of protein.

The major policies used by governments to slow or reverse the growth in a country’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generally fall into four basic categories: economic, regulatory, technological, and forestry/land-use policies.

“We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering,

couple of decades ago, few people imagined that the most consequential near-term impacts of climate change on large parts of both the United States and Canada would be the warming-driven population explosion of a tiny pest, the tree-destroying bark beetle. Only through a comprehensive and ongoing

concurrently to reduce ocean acidification.